The Voice of the Border: Trade, immigration, infrastructure, health, agriculture, technology
In the span of one week Congress put to rest one contentious issue, Mexican trucks, and began debate on another, immigration reform.
Last week President Bush signed the Emergency Iraq and Hurricane Supplemental Appropriations into law. Enacted as part of this legislation were several restrictions on the proposed U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) pilot program […]
Border with Canada runs through library in Vermont village - Canada.com
Step through the front door of the Haskell Library and you’re in the United States.
Walk across the carpeted floor to the circulation desk and you’re in Canada. But if you sit down on the couch, you’re back in the U.S.
The 106-year-old Romanesque building, which straddles […]
Analysis: Northern Border Changes Loom - Post Chronicle
A coalition of Canadian and U.S. businesses, together with local officials and lawmakers from both sides of the border, is scrambling to fix what it says is a policy “train wreck” — the looming deadline for implementation of tight new regulations on what ID is needed to cross […]
Late Monday Senate leadership announced that it would extend the time for debate on the comprehensive immigration reform bill into June. The announcement came as the Senate moved to bring up the legislation on Monday. The extended time for debate acknowledges that reaching a compromise within the Senate will be no easy feat […]
Forbes: Panel Fears Border Fence Violates Treaty
A planned, much-debated fence along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to keep people from crossing the Rio Grande could exacerbate flooding and skew the national boundary, a binational commission said Wednesday.
An impermeable fence anywhere between the river and levees, which can be as far as 1 1/2 miles […]
This week the House approved legislation that would delay U.S. Department of Transportation’s pilot program granting access to U.S. roadways to Mexican carriers. Only three Congressmen, Representatives Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Charlie Gonzalez (D-TX) opposed the legislation sponsored by Rep. Nancy Boyda (D-KS). The measure would restrict the program to 100 […]
Last week, the House passed several amendments to H.R. 1684, the FY08 Department of Homeland Security Authorization bill, which would affect the implementation of WHTI at land and sea ports of entry. The amendments were derived from legislation introduced by Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Protecting American Commerce and Travel Act, H.R. 1061.
The House-passed […]
BTA President Maria Luisa O’Connell and Policy and Project Coordinator Diana Lauritson met with participants of the C-TPAT Rail pilot project in Nogales to discuss the status of the project. The meeting resulted in better coordination among the stakeholders, and the BTA anticipates the launching of the project to be sometime in the next […]
Nearly three and a half years after being mandated by Congress as part of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) continues to stir controversy and confusion among both the traveling public and lawmakers alike. Despite the security requirement’s successful implementation for air travel, the development […]
For more than 18 months the issue of comprehensive immigration reform has shadowed Congress. Last year, a Republican-controlled House and Senate reached an impasse on the matter, with the Senate approving a wide-ranging immigration reform bill and the House responding by passing stricter immigration and border security measures, including the now infamous “border […]
